Digitable Coffee Table touts built-in CD/DVD player

The Digitable integrates a CD/DVD player and disc storage carousel into a contemporary glass coffee table.

The Digitable by Peter Lea integrates a CD/DVD player and disc storage carousel into a contemporary glass coffee table. All you need to do is to pair it with your plasma TV and enjoy your favorite tracks and movies whilst sipping your cup of coffee.

Speaker designing competition entries – C4D

The team over at the C4D Cafe forum recently had a challenge to create a rendering of loudspeakers and some of the entries are just jaw dropping. All of them are impressive.

Restaurant with an automated ordering system

A restaurant in Germany that has automated wait-staff

A2, Hypersonic passenger jet

5 times faster than the speed of sound

The team of British engineers in the project LAPCAT supported by the European Space Agency (European Space Agency), took on the development of cleaner and supersonic passenger aircraft, code-named A2, which can speed 5 times faster than the speed of sound.

The aircraft will perform flights between Europe and Australia in less than five hours, reported AFP. For example, the duration of the flight from Belgium to Australia will be 4 hours 40 minutes.

Length A2 future aircraft will be 143 meters and the capacity – up to 300 passengers. Maximum speed of liner 6400 kilometers per hour, which is five times faster than the speed of sound.

For comparison, the length of the popular passenger aircraft Boeing-737 total 36.5 meters and the length of the largest to date A380 aircraft – 73 meters that about half of future aircraft.

It should also be noted that the A2 will fly on liquid hydrogen, which is more environmentally safe compared to the currently used fuels. Without refueling supersonic airliner will be able to fly up to 20 thousand kilometers, its creators claim.

The cost of a ticket to such a supersonic aircraft will be about £ 3500 (or almost USD 7000).